"When we reach the tomb
it will be time to deal with its affairs; till then let us be content
with life, and the good things it offers, such as thrones, and find the
love of the most beautiful woman in the world, and the rest. Harvest
your corn when it is ripe, Prince, and do not trouble about next year's
crop or whether in his grave Pharaoh's Double eats white bread or brown.
Pharaoh's daughter--or Amen's--is your business, not his ghost."
"Yes, good soothsayer," said Abi, "she is my business. But one more
question. Why did that accursed mummy speak of her as 'It'--in my dream
I mean--as though she were no woman, but something beyond woman?"
For a moment Kaku hesitated, for the point was hard to answer, then he
replied boldly:
"Because as I believe, Prince, this Queen with whom the gods are
rewarding your deserts is in truth more than woman, being Amen's very
daughter, and therefore in those realms whence the dream came, she is
known not as woman, but by her title of Royal Loveliness.
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